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From 2005 -2008 eHospital was a project funded by the European Commission under the Socrates / Grundtvig program. The goal was the development and testing of targeted eLearning curricula for various patient groups (adults), who had to spend a longer time in the hospital and therefore were subject to limited educational opportunities.
By the eLearning education offered:

giving patients access to Life Long Learning,

the re-integration of the patients into the normal everyday life are facilitated,

the acquisition of new knowledge and skills, as well as

the improvement of mental and physical well-being in the hospital can be achieved.

The curricula were offered as blended learning in partner hospitals, combining eLearning with presence units.

The evaluation of the entire project (process / product) was accompanied by (formative) and conclusive (summative) information about success and impact on the patients.
This was their website.
Content is from the site's 2006-2015 archived pages.

Welcome to the training area of eHOSPITAL project!

E-Hospital is a project funded by the European Commission in the framework of the programme Socrates/Grundtvig 1.

Trial course Switzerland. The art of profiling on the web
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What eHospital offers

Are you an adult educator or e-learning facilitator? Do you want to develop and offer learning activities for hospital patients?
Or are you a health manager and do you want to introduce educational activities in your hospital?

If you answer one of these questions positively eHospital may have interesting products for you:

• Research report on the state of the art of educational activities in European hospitals.
• Documentation of seven informal e-learning courses for adult patients in hospitals.
• Trial access to these e-learning courses
• Guidance publication for adult educators who wish to facilitate e-learning in hospitals.
• European conference on e-learning in hospital.

Aims of the eHospital project

The overall aim of eHospital is to promote informal e-learning activities for adult patients in hospitals.

This aim has been pursued by the operational objectives

• to design and pilot local e-learning projects for different groups of patients in hospitals,
• to evaluate the effects of these learning activities on the patients’ personal and social development and on the process of convalescence,
• to create and test an e-learning system with educational resources for learners and educators and with collaborative tools for interaction and group learning,
• to produce guidance material for adult educators to enable them to work with hospital patients,
• to implement awareness-raising activities on e-learning in hospitals among adult education institutions, hospital managers, medical, nursing and administrative staff, sponsors, authorities and other health care agents.

eHospital intervention logic:

eHospital activities

1 October 2005

Start of the project

November 2005

Kick-off meeting, Vienna

April 2006

Research phase completed

October 2006

Start of local e-learning projects in hospitals in Austria, Germany, Poland, France, Spain, and Switzerland

July 2007

Piloting phase completed

May 2008

English version of eHospital publication available as pdf download

August 2008

eHospital publication available in five languages as download and print

19 September 2008

European eHospital conference, Krems/ Austria

30 September 2008

Project end

Patient target groups and learning topics

In each participating country an education provider, who was a formal partner of the European project, initiated the e-learning offer. Each of these education providers cooperated with a local hospital, which was interested in making learning offers available to its patients.

These pilot programmes provided different opportunities of informal learning to different groups of hospital patients. The patient groups as well as the learning topics were selected at the request of the cooperating pilot hospitals. In their diversity they highlight the diverse purposes learning can potentially have in the context of patient education.

Technology

In the e-Hospital project Dokeos was used as both online Learning Management System and collaborative platform. Dokeos is a European Open Source e-learning and course management web application, translated into 34 languages and installed in more than 1.000 organisations worldwide to manage e-learning and collaboration activities. Dokeos proved to be a versatile, flexible and stable platform that complied with the learning projects developed in e-Hospital project. You can download this application from the Web portal of Dokeos: www.dokeos.com/download.php

Krems, 19 September 2008, 10.00-16.30

eHospital developed, piloted and evaluated e-learning courses for various groups of hospital patients in six European countries. On the basis of this experience, a guidance publication on organising e-learning offers in hospitals has been produced.

At the eHospital conference the outcomes of the project will be presented and discussed in three wider contexts in which they are situated:

• e-learning as a pedagogic approach at specific learning requirements
• Education as part of a patient-centered healthcare system
• Hospitals as places of learning in a lifelong learning perspective